Conductor-hood for stoves or ranges



(No Model.)

Patented Dec. .14, 1897.

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SIMEON F. PUTNEY, OF CLEVELAND, NEW YORK.

CONDUCTOR-HOOD FOR STOVES OR RANGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,443, dated December 14, 1897. Application filed August 17, 1897. Serial No. 648,553. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SIMEON F. PUTNEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Oswego and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Conductor-Hoods for Stoves or Ranges; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a novel form of conductor-hood for cooking stoves or ranges, and the object is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective device of this character for conducting the odors arising from the cooking into the draft-pipe or chimney, thus preventing them being difiused throughout the apartment.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the device,as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference-characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective .view of my conductor-hood as it appears in operation on an ordinary cooking stove or range. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the hood raised. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the hood and stovepipe.

1 represents the stovepipe, and 2 the vertical plate, which forms the support for the hood proper. This plate is provided with a clamp 3, which encompasses the stovepipe and is secured thereto by a bolt 4:.

5 represents a short pipe extending through the upper end of the plate 2 and communieating with the stovepipe by means of a suitable orifice 6. 7 represents a damper or valve located in the pipe 5, by means of which communication may be established or interrupted be tween the hood and the stovepipe.

8 represents the hood proper and is preferably rectangular in form and of any suitable size to extend over the top'of-the stove on which it is employed. It is likewise convex in shape, and at its apex it is provided with a hinge 9, by means of which it is adjustably secured to the plate 2.

10 represents a bracket secured to the face of the plate 2, and in it is pivoted or hinged theinner end of a spring-lever 11, the outer end of which is provided with an eye 12, which engages the looped end 13 of a link 14, the opposite end of which is hinged or pivoted to a bracket 15, fixed to the lower face of the hood, the arrangement of the same bein g such that when the hood is down, as shown in Fig. 1, it is supported in that position by its hinged joint and its rear parallel edges 16 16 resting against the face of the plate 2.

When it is desired to raise the hood to the position shown in Fig. 2, it is thrown upward by hand, carrying with it the outer end of the spring-lever 11 and the link 14, which assumes a vertical position to support the hood when elevated, as hereinbefore described.

When the hood is down, as shown in Fig. 1, the odors arising from the operation of cooking, as well as the heated air and gases, pass vertically upward, whence they are defiected by the hood through the pipe 5 into the chimney. This upward current likewise creates a draft in the room, thereby acting as a ventilator and greatly lessens the inconvenience connected with the cooking.

VVhileI have described my improved conductor-hood as applied to a wood or coal stove or range, it is evident that it is equally applicable to gas or oil stoves by providing an independent draft-pipe for conducting the current. of heated air from the pipe 5 to the chimney.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s-

The combination with a stove or range and its pipe provided with a draft-orifice 6, of the plate 2, provided with a clamp 3, the pipe 5, the damper 7, pivoted in said pipe, and the bracket 10, the spring-lever 11, fulcrumed in said bracket and formed at its outer end with an eye 12, the hood 8, hinged to said plate 9, the bracket 15, fixed to said hood, and the link 14, fulcrumed in said bracket and having its looped end pivoted to the eye 12 on the outer end of the spring-lever 11, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afllx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIMEON F. PUTNEY. \Vitnesses:

P. W. LEETE, M. B. DWYER. 

